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however no word in the English language does justice to the word.

1.08.2010

skiing

Åskaken

today was my last day in siljansnäs; the thermometer read -24C so we thought it'd be a good chance to go skiing ;)

many people say that once it's past -15C it's almost too cold to go outside; this can be true... but i wanted to go skiing before i left...

so my morbror Håkan, his wife, my 79 year old mormor and i went out on a "liten utflykt". we packed sandwiches, coffee, hot chocolate, and candy in a backpack, put our skis in a thule rack and sped away on an adventure.

it was almost tooo cold to take pictures - as soon as you took your mitten off to take a picture, your fingers almost hurt from the cold.

however, for your viewing pleasure are a few pictures from our little adventure.

cecilia . mormor . sara

our "fika stund" by the frozen lake

sara . cecilia . mormor

i must say, it was awesome to go skiing with my 79 year old mormor (grandma). she is fabulous. more on her some other post. she turns 80 this year and hopefully i'll be able to do something special for her 80th birthday.

mormor . cecilia . håkan

racing to the end

sara

trying to cross-country ski down a small hill...

here's a picture of my mormor

i am soooo proud of her!! it was -24C (which makes it -11.2 F) and she went out skiing with us.it was such a fabulous memory and it was wonderful to spend my last full day in siljansnäs skiing with my mormor. :)